The Rise of the European Emperor

"What? Edward was assassinated?" Marin stood up in surprise, his face instantly filled with complex expressions.

This expression, of course, is mainly shock. However, there are also some secret joys?

After being surprised for a while, Marin asked:

"Is the news reliable? How is His Majesty Edward?" Marin's subtext is—Is Edward dead?

As Marin's confidant, how could Kohler not know what his master meant. So, he shook his head and said:

"It's just that my arm was cut and I need to recuperate for a few months. There is no fatal injury..."

"That's it..." Marin was full of disappointment, thinking that his son could enter England in advance. As a result, there was nothing to rejoice about.

At this time, Kohler suddenly said:

"However, we found that the assassination of His Majesty Edward seems to be related to the French..."

"What's going on?" Marin asked with interest.

"It's like this. Recently, the relationship between France and the United Kingdom has been extremely bad because of the ownership of the Calais fortress. The French even really thought about taking the clothes of the dead of the smallpox patient. The British vaccinated the people in the fortress of Calais for the first time, making the French plan bankrupt."

"So, in the following time, France and the United Kingdom engaged in military confrontation while negotiating. But the relationship between the two sides dropped to a freezing point, and they both wanted the other to die. And the assassin who assassinated Edward this time was obtained by our North Sea State spy stationed in London. Cooperating with the investigation, it was discovered that the assassins were bought by the French to ambush His Majesty Edward outside the Westminster Abbey."

"However, His Majesty Edward was very lucky. The stabbing knife to his heart was blocked by the breastplate hidden in his clothes. The assassin couldn't make a single blow, so he could only cut His Majesty Edward's left arm..."

...

Marin shook his head:

"How did he wear a breastplate under his clothes? So shady?"

Kohler looked at Marin speechlessly, and said:

"Did you forget? His Majesty Edward was with us every day when we helped Edward attack Henry VII. When you entered the city of London, you showed him wearing a breastplate under a silk robe?"

Marin suddenly realized - Nima,

Calling other people dirty, isn't that scolding yourself? After many years of this matter, Marin himself forgot.

I am a person who is afraid of death. Every time I go out to hold a ceremony, I will wear a steel breastplate armor under the silk robe to protect the vitals and avoid being assassinated. Unexpectedly, he was inadvertently learned by Edward.

In fact, he didn't teach it to Edward on purpose, but he showed Edward the shiny breastplate armor worn under the silk robe when he led the army into the city of London. Edward just asked a casual question at the time, and Marin also answered casually. In the end, Edward remembered this method...

You can't blame Edward for learning this method, because when he first entered London to overthrow the rule of Henry VII, under the bewitching of Marin, Edward went on a killing spree, massacring too many nobles of Henry VII's faction, and forged a Too much blood feud. It can be said that in England, there are not tens of thousands but thousands of people who want to kill Edward.

But as a monarch, he always goes to the square, Westminster Abbey and other important places to participate in public activities. At this time, including on the way to and from the church, it is easy to be assassinated.

Therefore, Edward also learned from Marin. Under the gorgeous silk robe, he wore a three-quarter breastplate armor to protect important parts such as the heart.

This time he participated in an important religious event in Westminster Abbey, and was caught by the assassin. Taking advantage of the chaos of the crowd, he came up and stabbed the knife.

But the assassin didn't expect that Edward was wearing breastplate armor under his gorgeous robes, and then he missed...

Before being hacked to death by Edward's guards, he swung his knife vigorously, trying to get Edward's throat straight, and then Edward's left arm was blocked, and his left arm was injured. Then, the assassin was chopped into eight pieces by Edward's guards...

...

Originally, because the assassin was killed on the spot, the clues were cut off. But it just so happened that the spy of the Beihai State stationed in London saw the assassin in contact with a businessman in a tavern the day before the assassination. And that businessman is a French businessman.

This is not the point, the point is - this French businessman took root in London through the help of the French maid beside Queen Anna...

Now the problem is big, is Queen Anna's maid related to the assassination? Really not!

Queen Anna's maid, Marceau, was a "clean-born" Frenchman whom Edward personally sent to France to pick out after dismissing all the maids that Earl Duert had arranged for Anna, in order to alleviate the queen's homesickness. Affection. After all, it is not lonely to be accompanied by a group of maids from their hometown who speak their hometown dialect.

But it just so happened that the French businessman named Weissmann and the French spy happened to be distant relatives of the queen maid named Marceau. In order to facilitate entry into London, Weissman took Marceau's path and entered London...

The queen's maid still has a bit of face, and Weisman quickly took root in London, specializing in the introduction of French wine (England imports a large amount of wine every year) and the export of English woolen cloth.

This time, taking advantage of the opportunity to arrange for someone to assassinate Edward was actually the order of Weissman's boss. In the eyes of the French, Edward's seizure of the Calais fortress was indeed very "rebellious". Therefore, the French also wished that Edward would die early.

Once Edward dies, England will definitely be in chaos. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the French have the opportunity to recapture the Calais fortress. And because Edward has no children, England may even have civil strife, giving France a chance to invade its homeland...

So Weissman hired a impoverished son of a former English aristocrat named Bill and sent him to assassinate Edward. Bill, the hired son of a former nobleman, had a father who was a baron during Henry VII's time. Although he was not a high-ranking and powerful man, his family was wealthy.

But in the battle against the Marlin army hired by Edward to enter London, Bill's father, Baron Gates, died outside London as a middle-level officer.

Because they were not high-level nobles, Edward was not specifically targeted when he was purged later. And Bill cleverly disguised himself and escaped, so he was not counted.

However, these days, Bill seems to be infected with pneumonia, and he will die soon (at that time, pneumonia in Europe was basically waiting to die, and there was no cure). Weissman also took a fancy to this, and bewitched him to say——Anyway, you are dying, why not do a feat before you die, and kill Edward who ruined your family...

Then, Bill of the Gates family, full of hatred, prepared to assassinate Edward, relying on the aristocratic family's knowledge of martial arts. Moreover, it really gave him a chance.

At that time, many people were praying. Bill was wearing ordinary monk's clothes, with his head down, and he didn't attract attention. After all, the most people in Westminster Abbey are monks.

But when he assassinated Edward in the end, he didn't expect Edward to wear a breastplate under his robe, and then he had to drink his hatred...

...

Afterwards, British officials did not catch Weisman because he hurried out of the city early in the morning. In the end, Edward's men only caught Weisman's hapless men and the hapless Marceau maid.

This innocent little French girl named Marceau bore most of Edward's anger and was beaten to death...

...

Hearing this, Marin changed his previous depression of "Edward is not dead", and laughed out loud.

"I'm worried that I don't have a chance. I didn't expect that the opportunity will come so soon..."